User blog comment:Anobi/Alternate Timeline Theory/@comment-1512913-20120730200632

Bringing him back would be awful and cliche, he has died in DMC1, even though I can't say he was really "alive" till then since controlled and all. All that left of him were a broken armor used to create Angelos and Yamato, and the spirit in Nero's DT is pressumed/theorized to be his soul, so I don't see it.

But yeah, we can dream